I still think The Wheel of Time would have made an amazing Anime show. Better than this one for sure. 

I can’t afford a $32,000 car, let alone one twice that. And I drive my cars for 10+ years. In a decade will my electric car be as obsolete as an iPhone 5?

“The dealers have pointed to a lack of demand for less-than-affluent customers”

similarly, mentioning only the weight of fuel saved without mentioning the overall consumption is useless info, but I guess that’s what happens when you’re simply parroting a press release

I think they’ll make it in less than 12 parsecs tho

We predict that you will arrive at your destination in 455,000 minutes +/-2.4 million seconds.

Why not stick to the standard? How fast can it complete the Kessel Run?

How many hectares can it go on a single tank of heavy oil?

Agreed. Keep the damn units the same. It is like saying “If I take the freeway to Jeff’s house it is 10 miles, but going backroads it is 120 furlongs.”

Transplants also forget that if they could drive in bad weather, they wouldn’t have moved away.

Transplants often forget that their region full of bad weather also includes a bunch of infrastructure that was specifically designed for it. Despite spending most of my life in the Midwest, I hate going out in Texas when we get the rare snow dusting because nothing here is meant to deal with that and no one knows how…

Having grown up in the northeast, I thought people in the southwest were just idiots. Thought there’s lots of evidence to suggest that is often the case (everyone has bald tires and dry rotted wiper blades), remember that a lot of people down there are transplants and not natives. The natives in Arizona and Nevada at…

as an owner of an Aspen White, I can get behind this

Charge all cars, regardless of propulsion, a road tax based on weight and mileage, and keep the gas tax as a carbon offset.

The key is the arbitrary fee doubles that paid by ICE vehicles over the same period of time. I don’t begrudge finding an alternative means of taxation to cover infrastructure maintenance that would otherwise be lost due to not needing to buy gas. I do begrudge the blatantly obvious “herp derp we’ll show those woke libr…

The other part here is that it is political suicide to raise the gas taxes, which should have likely been done years ago. By hitting EVs at double the average annual gas tax people pay, they’re actually hitting them at something closer to what the actual gas tax should be, but can’t raise them to. On top of that—at…

“If every single gas vehicle were changed to EV overnight - what would be the solution to replace the Gas Tax?”

Texas just eliminated their annual inspection requirement, but for those there was a big list of local mechanics that could do them, so could keep that and just use various mechanics to report mileage prior to registration renewal. That does open another avenue for fraud by paying off a mechanic (which did exist with…

Oregon, Utah, and Virginia already have them live. Looks like Hawaii is getting ready to. When I lived in Washington State, they were seeking people willing to participate in the trials years ago. I’d bet almost half the states in the USA either have trials programs with their DOT or a bill floating around about…

I would base the law on miles driven with a weight multiplier at renewal each year. heavier vehicles pay more per mile driven than lighter vehicles.